F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me."
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Grew Up
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Kevin Smith
Filmmaker
"Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up."
Jenifer Lewis
Actress, Singer
"We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up."
Lee Child
Author
"I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well."
John Hume
Politician, Nobel Laureate
"I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination."
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"I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City."
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"The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other."
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"I grew up watching comedy. It was among all the geeky things that I did."
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"I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most."
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"I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close."
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"I grew up in a dysfunctional family."
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"As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister."
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"I grew up on radio, not TV."
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"I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life."
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"I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia."
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"I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author."
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"I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read."
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"I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it."
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"I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver."
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"I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports."
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"I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa."
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"When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie."
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"When I choose material for an album all these songs I grew up with pour into my head."
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"So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA 'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS"
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"I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray."
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